Ricarda Fahrbach

Attorney-at-law - Partner

She advises on international and national commercial law mandates. Furthermore, she specializes in complex court proceedings, arbitration proceedings, IT and IP law, corporate law and contract drafting. As important, she also acts as an arbitrator.

In the area of IT law, she particularly devotes herself to the technical aspects of the case. For this reason, she has also completed a course to become a specialist lawyer for IT law and successfully passed the relevant examinations.

Already during her studies at the Universities of Heidelberg and Uppsala (Sweden), her main interest was in international private and civil procedural law and arbitration law. During her legal clerkship, she deepened her knowledge of international commercial law in positions at international and national law firms in Mannheim, Frankfurt and Stockholm.

Her enthusiasm for international issues and negotiations was already evident in her voluntary work during her studies: She is a member of Deutsche Model United Nations (DMUN) e.V. and was active there as chairwoman of the board, as secretary general of MUNBW 2011 and as project manager of MUNBW 2009. She was also involved in the accreditation of DMUN as an NGO at ECOSOC of the United Nations.

In addition to German, Ricarda Fahrbach is fluent and business fluent in English. She also speaks Swedish and has knowledge of French and Italian.

Ricarda Fahrbach is a member of DIS (German Institution of Arbitration), DIS40 (German Initiative of Young Arbitration Lawyers), DAVIT (IT Law Working Group in the German Lawyer Association) and GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property).

She regularly publishes on topics of German and international commercial law with a focus on international civil procedure law.

• Studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg (Germany) - completed first state examination

• Studied abroad at Uppsala University (Sweden)

• Legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe with stations at the Local Court of Mannheim, the Public Prosecutor's Office in Heidelberg, the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg, Rittershaus Rechtsanwälte and at Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå in Frankfurt and Stockholm - completed second state examination

• Admitted to the bar

• Keine Prozesskostensicherheit für Klage im Brexit-Übergangszeitraum: Anmerkung zu BGH, Urteil vom 21.12.2023 - IX ZR 143/22, IWRZ 2024, 144
• Thomson Reuters Practical Law – Opening a Bank Account (Germany): Checklist, 2023
• Keine Anwendung von Vorschriften des EU-Prozessrechts auf Ermittlung von Zustellungsadressen und Außerkraftsetzung von fehlerhaften Mahnbescheiden - Anmerkung zu EuGH 9.9.2021 - C-208/20 und C-256/20, Anmerkung zu EuGH Urteil vom 09.09.2021 - C-256/20, IWRZ 2022, 44
• LG Hamburg: Im Zweifel für die Wirksamkeit der internationalen Zustellung, IWRZ 2021, 190
• Thomson Reuters Practical Law – How to Incorporate a GmbH (Germany), 2021 (annual updates since then)
• BayObLG: Keine Ablehnung der internationalen Zeugenvernehmung wegen pre trial discovery, Anmerkung zu Beschluss vom 06.11.2020 - 101 VA 130/20, IWRZ 2021, 93
• Thomson Reuters Practical Law – Establishing a business in Germany, 2020 (annual updates since then)
• EUGH: Europäisches Zustellungsrecht: Gleichwertiger Beleg, Übergabe an Dritte und fehlende Belehrung, Anmerkung EuGH, Urteil vom 2.3.2017 – C-354/15 Andrew Marcus Henderson/Novo Banco SA, IWRZ 2017, 179
• With Ulrich Schiener: Besondere Rechtsfragen der internationalen Zustellung, IWRZ 2017, 154
• BGH: Maßnahmen zur Herbeiführung der internationalen Rechtshängigkeitssperre, Anmerkung zu BGH, Beschluss vom 13.9.2016 – VI ZB 21/15, IWRZ 2017, 84
• With Ulrich Schiener: Praktische Rechtsfragen der internationalen Zustellung: Die Zustellung aus dem Inland in das Ausland, IWRZ 2017, 16
• With Ulrich Schiener: Praktische Rechtsfragen der internationalen Zustellung: Die Zustellung aus dem Ausland in das Inland, IWRZ 2016, 158